On 12/12/11 14:58, Eric Blake wrote: > "Files with multiple links shall be counted and written for only one > entry. The directory entry that is selected in the report is unspecified."
Yes, that's partly what motivates the current GNU du behavior: the idea is to implement this notion consistently (historical 'du' implementations do not). > But even historically, command line arguments were always listed, even > if they are otherwise multiple links. I suppose we could change GNU 'du' to output "0 X" for a command-line argument X that's already been seen. This wouldn't address the problem perceived by the original poster, though. And it's a glitch from the point of view of consistency. Perhaps 'du' needs a new option to control what to do with files that 'du' has already seen before. something that generalizes --count-links.
